Professional paper

Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Registry in University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice

Hrvoje Pintarić ; University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Zdravko Babić ; University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivan Zeljković ; University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia
Ivica Benko ; University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

Despite the fact that coronary heart disease (CHD) is the first cause of mortality, in Croatia there is no comprehensive registry of patiens with CHD, while the registries for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are maintained only by specific cardiac catheterization laboratories, which greatly differ from each other and are not mutually compatible. Laboratory of Invasive and Interventional Cardiology of the University Hospital Centre Sestre milosrdnice established its own PCI registry from 1st January 2011. This registry is available in electronic format, with a high access protection level. The registry includes 45 different data which are divided into 5 groups: general data, risk factors, symptoms and signs of acute disease, procedure and materials used, and diagnostic and therapeutic results. The main differences of this registry compared to the existing registries is a model according to which the entry of data for each patient are divided between the medical technician, medical radiology engineer and interventional cardiologist, its utmost simplicity, short time required for the registration and writing the findings of catheterization at the same time. Only after all the required data have been filled in, the interventional cardiologist will enter a diagnosis and findings and the data are locked. In this way we have ensured that all the variables relating to each individual intervention performed are entered in the database, they can be written in Excel extension and implemented in any registry.
After the first year of use, we have reached a conclusion that the Registry has greatly facilitated the daily work and that is complements the new technologies introduced in the treatment of CHD. The establishment of this Registry is only a step towards a common goal, establishment of the national PCI registry and participation of the Republic of Croatia in the European registry of patients with acute coronary syndrome.

Keywords

coronary heart disease; percutaneous coronary intervention; registry

Hrčak ID:

77049

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/77049

Publication date:

26.1.2012.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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